Mayeye
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| extinct as a tribe since early 19th century Karankawa[1] |
The Mayeye were a
Name
Their name was also written as Macheye, Maheye, Maiece, Maieye, Malleye, Maye, Meghay, and Muleye.[1]
History
The Mayeye lived in the Rancheria Grande along the
Although the baptized Mayeye did not like being so far from their non-mission relatives, they did see some advantages to the mission system. They along with the
In 1749 there were 63 Mayeye in the mission.[5] By no means was this all the Mayeye. The Marques de Rubi counted several times this many Mayeye on his tour of Texas in 1766-1768.[6] When the San Gabriel valley missions were abandoned in the early 1750s some of the Mayeye had moved back to Mission San Antonio de Valero, and there were people still identified as Mayeye at that location until at least some point in the 1760s.
In the 1770s some of the Mayeye moved to the coast and joined with the
The linguist Andrée F. Sjoberg argued that the Mayeye were the same as the Yakwal, a coastal band of Tonkawa.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Campbell, Thomas N. "Mayeye Indians". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
- ^ Juliana Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), p. 133
- ^ Juliana Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman, p. 131
- ^ Anderson, The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), p. 85
- ^ Anderson, The Indian Southwest, p. 86
- ^ Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman, p. 133
References
- Anderson, Gary Clayton (1999). The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806131115.
- Barr, Juliana (2009). Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807867730.